LIVE: House Foreign Affairs Committee on Early Signs of War Crimes and Human Rights Abuses Committed by the Russian Military
The person testifying in the hearing, accusing Russia of war crimes, Georgetown Professor Anthony Arend, is not new to making similar ridiculous claims. He has said that the Trump administration’s use of force against D.C. protesters on June 1 [2020] saw at least one contravention of the Geneva Convention. A preposterous accusation.
https://sfs.georgetown.edu/sfs-on-topic-institutions-respond-to-the-black-lives-matter-movement/
WASHINGTON: "The Biden administration will grant temporary deportation relief and work permits to Afghans without permanent legal status but who are currently in the U.S., a move that could aid those evacuated after last year's U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The grant of so-called Temporary Protected Status will be available to 72,500 Afghans who entered on what is known as "humanitarian parole," another temporary status, as part of the U.S. evacuation of at-risk Afghans last summer, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday. The TPS designation would also cover about 2,000 Afghans who entered the United States on student, employment and tourist visas and can no longer return to their home country following the Taliban takeover in August. The designation will be available to those living in the United States by March 15 and last for 18 months, the DHS said, although the status could be renewed. Joe Biden, a Democrat, has greatly expanded the number of immigrants eligible for humanitarian protection under TPS, reversing the restrictive approach of his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump."
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-03-16/biden-to-grant-temporary-deportation-relief-to-afghans-in-the-united-states
"The Federal Reserve is poised to raise interest rates on Wednesday, a move to combat soaring inflation as the U.S. comes out of the pandemic and economic uncertainty in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The expected quarter-point hike comes as prices have risen at their fastest pace in 40 years.
Prices have increased 7.9% over the past year, the fastest rate of inflation since 1982. Last month, prices were up 0.8%, an acceleration from January. Personal consumption expenditures, the preferred measure used by the Federal Reserve, showed prices, excluding often-volatile food and energy, up 5.2% from a year ago and 0.5% in January."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-reserve-expected-to-raise-rates/
Representative Ann Wagner: Putin is a butcher…We must keep them [Ukraine] in the fight.
Bonnie Docherty, from Human Rights Watch, who is testifying about Russian war crimes, works with the Albright Institute. Madeleine Albright is an international war criminal, and also participated as an 'election observer' in the fraudulent 2014 election in Ukraine.
"The Albright Institute educates global citizens for leadership"
https://www.wellesley.edu/albright/albright/careereducation/about/faculty/bonnie-docherty
Representative Tenney: We want justice. We want to see Vladimir Putin pay the price for these horrific crimes the we believe are happening.
Representative Sires: I'm not that confident that we're going to be able to prove these are war crimes.
Arend: We do not have all the evidence…the final word is not in; it seems pretty clear to me that Vladimir Putin has committed war crimes.
Representative Keating just said what Issa did a few days ago- that the committee will soon be looking at an AUMF [Authorization to Use Military Force] against Russia.
Garlasco just pointed out that it is not a war crime to target people [non-military] who are directly participating in hostilities.
Grozev: The shooting down of MH17 airliner…the United State refused to share it's intelligence data from satellites with the law enforcement bodies investigating the case.
They probably do have such programs, but I think it would be very difficult to learn that way, as opposed to English/Spanish, which are similar enough to be able to often understand words and phrases.